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News Release Archive 2002
December 16, 2002
UF
Law School Names Nationally Recognized Librarian to Head
Chiles Legal Information Center
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – Mary Kathleen Price, the former law librarian
at the Library of Congress and now director of the law library
at New York University, will become director in 2003 of
the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center at the University
of Florida Levin College of Law.
December 11, 2002
UF Law School to
Honor O'Connell, Supreme Court Justices
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – University of Florida Levin College of Law
officials announced plans here today to dedicate space in
the to-be-expanded Legal Information Center to honor the
late Justice Stephen C. O’Connell and other Florida
Supreme Court justices who are UF alumni.
November 21, 2002
UF Law Team Wins
National Civil Trial Competition
LOS ANGELES,
CA – A four-member team from the University of Florida
College of Law won the National Civil Trial Team Competition
held here last weekend (Nov. 14-16), beating competitors
from 13 other American Bar Association accredited law schools
from throughout the United States.
November 1, 2002
Law Center Schedules
Forum on ‘Minorities & the Military’
The Center for
the Study of Race and Race Relations (CSRRR) of the College
of Law will present a forum Nov. 14, on “Minorities
and the Military: Past, Present and Future.”
October 7, 2002
'Citizenship or
Bondage' Presentations to Dramatize Key Issues Regarding
Woman and the Law
GAINESVILLE
-- In conjunction with the October celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the University of Florida's Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research, students and faculty of the
University’s Levin College of Law will reenact a landmark
U.S. Supreme Court case denying women’s access to
equal employment opportunities.
October 2, 2002
UF Research: Historic
Preservation a Boon to Florida
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – Historic preservation helps bring an additional
$4.2 billion a year to the Florida economy and more than
120,000 jobs a year to Sunshine State workers, according
to a study being released today by researchers at the University
of Florida Levin College of Law Center for Governmental
Responsibility (CGR).
September 26, 2002
College of Law Kicks
off Facilities Expansion With Celebration Ceremony, Architect
Naming
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College
of Law officials Friday night will honor contributors to
its recent successful $25 million expansion campaign, and
announce the selection of architects to design major facilities
for the nation’s 11th largest law school.
September 17, 2002
Nation’s First
Law School Music Conference Scheduled for Gainesville in
October
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – A student organization at the University of
Florida’s Levin College of Law hopes to build on this
area’s reputation as an incubator for aspiring musicians
by hosting the nation’s first Music Law Conference
on Oct. 4-5.
September 4, 2002
Friel Named Associate
Dean For Academic Affairs
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – University of Florida Law School Dean Jon Mills
has appointed Graduate Tax Law Program Director and Professor
Michael Friel as associate dean for academic affairs.
August 19, 2002
Growth
Implications for Florida Subject of UF Nelson Symposium
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – Growth management experts from around the nation
will meet with legal practitioners at a September symposium
to discuss important land use and growth issues in Florida
and the United States.
July 31, 2002
Dispute Resolution
Law Symposiums Scheduled in South Florida
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. – Dispute resolution experts from around the nation
will meet with legal practitioners at two symposiums scheduled
in September in South Florida.
May 28, 2002
New Web Site Reveals
Legal, Historical Data of 1822-45 Territorial Florida
GAINESVILLE,
Fla – It may be difficult these days to imagine divorces
taking place in Tallahassee’s state government buildings,
but in early territorial Florida – before it became a state
– public divorce proceedings before the legislature were
commonplace.
May 24, 2002
College Moves Up
in National Ranking
Our College
of Law has moved into the country's top 20 public law schools
- and is once again ranked in the top 50 public and private
- as evaluated by U.S. News & World Report in its 2002 "America's
Best Graduate Schools."
May 6, 2002
Innovative UF Law
School Program Tries to Keep Attorneys Out of Court
GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- It may not
seem so, with lawsuits being filed for such things as take-out
coffee being too hot, but an important trend in the legal
profession is to have attorneys spend less time in the courtroom.
April 16, 2002
UF Professor: Terrorists
& Organized Crime Share Profit Motive
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. -- When it comes to finances, terrorists of al Qaeda
and other such organizations are more like members of organized
crime than the holy warriors they claim to be.
April 16, 2002
Alachua Judge, Others
Honored by UF Black Law Students Association
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. -- Alachua County Judge Phyllis Kotey and Samuel Dell
Research Scholar Professor Winston Nagan have been honored
by the University of Florida Levin College of Law's Black
Law Students Association (BLSA) for their diversity leadership.
April 2, 2002
Noted Cyberspace
Scholar Lessig Speaks as 2002 Dunwody Distinguished Lecturer
GAINESVILLE,
Fla -- Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law
School, will discuss the importance of finding a middle
ground among the extremism that dominates the current debate
about copyright at the 21st annual Dunwody Distinguished
Lecture to be held here April 26.
March 28, 2002
UF Professor: Legislature
May Not Have Solved State's Election Problems
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. -- Despite changes made in the wake of the state's
2000 presidential election foul-ups, Florida hasn't solved
some of its key problems in voting, says a University of
Florida professor in the new issue of the Florida Journal
of Law and Public Policy.
March 26, 2002
UF Law Latin America
Conference Includes Cuba Issues, Argentina Economic Development
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. -- Officials and academicians from Brazil, Costa Rica,
Guatemala, Argentina, Mexico and Cuba will be among participants
at the third annual Legal & Policy Issues in the Americas
conference here April 22.
March 18, 2002
Law School in 'Top
10' for Hispanic Students
For the second
time in three years, Hispanic Business Magazine, a nationally
distributed publication, ranks the University of Florida
Levin College of Law among its "Top 10 Law Schools for Hispanic
Students."
March 14, 2002
Two International
Human Rights Advocates Highlight UF Law School Race Relations
Conference
GAINESVILLE,
Fla -- Internationally recognized human rights advocate
and author Randall Robinson and former Jamaican cabinet
minister Dudley Thompson will be featured here next week
at the third annual conference on race and race relations
sponsored by the University of Florida Levin College of
Law.
March 12, 2002
UF Law School Launches
'Shadowing' Program to Benefit Lawyers, Students
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. -- As the result of a successful pilot in 2001, a unique
professional shadowing program for first-year law students
developed by the University of Florida Levin College of
Law will be formally launched this summer.
February 22, 2002
Law School Sets
Road to 'Top 10' for UF Task Force on the Future
The report --
comparable to one requested of each UF college dean -- is
to assist UF President Charles Young and the Task Force
in developing a strategic approach to accomplishing university
goals and long-term success.
February 14, 2002
UF Law School Campaign
for Expansion Successful
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. * University of Florida Levin College of Law officials
report they have exceeded by $1.3 million their goal to
raise $5 million toward expansion of facilities for the
nation's 11th largest law school.
February 4, 2002
Focus on Florida
Industry, Tourism and Agriculture Set for Annual Public
Interest Environmental Conferencee
GAINESVILLE,
Fla * Fifty national and state experts will be featured
as panelists and speakers next week at the University of
Florida's Levin College of Law Eighth Annual Public Interest
Environmental Conference.
January 24, 2002
Race, Race Relations
Recommendations Subject of National UF Law Conference
GAINESVILLE,
Fla. * Select academicians and community activists from
across the country will join with their peers from the University
of Florida and the Levin College of Law to discuss perspectives
and recommendations on race and race relations at a two-day
conference here in March.
January 18, 2002
Using Technology
for Business Growth Subject of February Law Conference
MIAMI, Fla *
Cutting edge issues in software, e-commerce and e-business,
and American and international trademarks and domain names
will be discussed here Feb. 21-22, at the first annual Law
& Technology Conference.
January 10, 2002
International Financial
Crimes Conference Scheduled for Miami January 23-26
MIAMI, Fla National
and international financial experts will be featured here
Jan. 23-26, at the 15th Money Laundering Cybercrime and
International Financial Crimes Conference co-sponsored by
Oceana Publications and the University of Florida Levin
College of Law Center for International Financial Crimes
Studies (CIFCS).